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The survey was based on responses from more than 200 aid professionals, academics, health workers, policymakers, journalists and development specialists chosen for their expertise in gender issues.
It pointed to the need for greater scrutiny of the sector, as well as greater honesty within it, and included some highly critical comments from journalists describing development aid as an "old-fashioned, simplistic model".
Karakalpakstan, however much was spent on the region, "will be on life support for ever".Most journalists covering development are brought up to think in terms of "solutions"—The Economist would hardly be in business if it didn't have prescriptions.
Thomson Reuters asked more than 200 aid professionals, academics, health workers, policy makers, journalists and development specialists from five continents to rank countries on their overall perception of danger for women as well as by six risk categories, from health to violence to religious and other factors.
Besides a dramatic increase in attacks on journalists, recent developments show a more worrying pattern of behavior on the part of the media attackers.
Journalist and international development worker Rebecca Cooke tweeted: "An international not just local investigation is needed".
"All this talk about good governance does not go beyond sloganeering," said Philip Ikita, a Nigerian journalist, sociologist and development worker.
As Downer, who now works as a development journalist with Panos Caribbean, says: "Development journalism gives soul to media, it gives it a human face".
